Clarisse Figueiredo is a Brazilian architect. She is a Ph.D. student in the History and Theory of Architecture and a Presidential Fellow at the Department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

 

Her research interest involves applying an interdisciplinary lens to examine architecture’s complicity in shaping landscapes of material, ontological, and epistemological extraction, particularly in Brazil's Northeast and North regions. Lately, she has been focusing her research on the filmographic archives produced by the dictatorship regime of Brazil during the Cold War period.

 

Before pursuing her Ph.D., Clarisse conducted research in the Brazilian Amazon as part of the Masters of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) at Columbia University, to which she was awarded the CCCP PROGRAM AWARD for a significant contribution to the culture of research, practice, and the public sphere within the program. Her Master’s thesis investigated the interplay between the architecture of a monument and the advancing of illegal gold mining activities in Indigenous land alongside questions pertaining to environmental toxicity, labor, and non-Western cosmovisions.

 

She also contributed to the book "Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas," which was launched during the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of the installation titled "100 Links."

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